Citation: R. Br., Prod. Fl. Nov. Holl. 324 (1810).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Daddy-long-legs, tailed caladenia.

Description:
Stem slender, greenish, 10-30 cm high, pilose with long straight hairs; leaf linear, 7-15 cm long, pilose like the stem to almost glabrous.

Flowers 1-3, grey-white, pink, crimson or cream-yellowish with red markings; perianth-segments dilated in their basal fourth, thereafter produced into hairy filaments (caudae); dorsal sepal 4-7 cm long, erect at first then drooping; lateral sepals 5-7 cm long, drooping; petals similar but shorter; labellum ovate to cordate, 4-7 mm long, on a short claw, at first erect against the column thereafter recurved, margins shortly serrate or dentate, tip subacute, entire; lamina in the lower half with the calli in 2 closely set rows extending to about the bend, sometimes with crimson divergent veins; column c. 7 cm high, without 2 basal glands, with wide hatchet-shaped wings above, more narrowly winged below; anther without a point.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Both varieties in S.Aust. are almost identical morphologically and differ mainly in colour.

Key to Infraspecific taxa:

1. Flowers uniformly crimson to pink; labellum margins serrate or serrulate	var. filamentosa 9a.
1. Flowers cream-white; labellum margins dentate	var. tentaculata 9b.

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